(Note: Installing phpMyAdmin from the above guide is optional; if you're ever likely to make your own website that will use PHP and MySQL, I'd suggest you install it. Otherwise you probably won't need it).

Step 2

Install the image library Jinzora needs

pacman -S gd

Step 3

Uncomment the following line in /etc/php.ini (by deleting the semicolon in front of it ;))

Page 4 - Installation Type : Change from 'Streaming' to 'Streaming & Jukebox' if you wish to listen to the music on the computer you're installing Jinzora2 on (it's primarily a streaming application to allow remote access to, and control of, a streaming server running it).

Page 5 - Main Settings : If you hover over the boxes here, they explain the settings, so choose whatever you want. It's best to choose 'Database' for Backend Type. I'd also suggest using the 'Tag Data' option for Data Structure[/u], unless your music is organized on your filesystem exactly the way you want it to be :P

Page 6 - Backend Setup : Unless you've used Jinzora before, or for some reason wish to manually create a MySQL database for it to use, then select 'True' under 'Create Database'.

Page 7 - Import Media : This step may take a few minutes if you've got a few gigs of music; simply enter into the box the directory where your music is stored. When the installer's finished importing the music from this directory, you'll have the option to import as many other directories as you want, one after the other. You can also import more files from the Settings interface when Jinzora is up and running.

(Note : While Jinzora was importing my music collection, I had the following error appear twice on the page:

Warning: strpos() [function.strpos]: Offset not contained in string. in /home/httpd/html/jinzora2/services/services/tagdata/getid3/module.tag.id3v2.php
on line 1542

This seemed to have no adverse effect on the installation though, so if something similar happens to you, don't worry!)

Step 8

When you've finished importing your music, click Proceed to save config, then Proceed to launch Jinzora. You will now get an error message - to resolve this, you must go into your ~/httpd/html/jinzora2 directory and delete the 'install' directory.

Step 9

Edit ~/httpd/html/jinzora2/jukebox/settings.php: under 'Description', change 'Winamp Media Player' to `Music Player Daemon` (or whatever you want), and under 'type' change 'winamp3' to 'mpd'.

Change 'password' to be empty (so it just reads rather than 'jinzora'), or change this to whatever password you've set in /etc/mpd.conf .

Also in this file, change the port from '4800' to '6600', or whatever port you've set MPD to accept connections on in /etc/mpd.conf .

Step 10

If you wish to use Jinzora's streaming functionality, you will need to edit /etc/hosts.allow and add

Now go back to your webbrowser, click refresh, select 'Music Player Daemon' from the 'Playback To' dropdown menu and Voila! Your own working copy of Jinzora !

Troubleshooting

If you can't get any sound despite all of the above, try testing mpd with another GUI client (Glurp is a nice simple one - do [b]pacman -S glurp[/b], add a track to its playlist and try to play it). If you have no sound in this either, you need to further edit /etc/mpd.conf. Try uncommenting some of the ALSA settings in this file (assuming you use ALSA).

If you know that MPD is working, then try to match up the settings in Jinzora as closely to those in /etc/mpd.conf as possible (the settings in Jinzora are accessed from the 4th small green button on the upper left of the 'Slick' interface.

If changes to your playlist are ignored, go to System Tools -> Settings Manager -> Main Settings/Playlist and set 'use_ext_playlists' to 'false'.

If when you click on the PLAY button of any song / album you are offered a 'playlist.m3u' download, then you haven't changed the 'Playback To' option to 'Music Player Daemon.